This is indeed hilarious: so Mubarak and Bin Ali were Russian and not US puppets. I never knew that. ""Last year, Moscow stubbornly clung to its Soviet legacy allies in the Arab
world. One by one, they wobbled, and eventually fell: Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine
Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, and, finally, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Now the
Kremlin seems to be making a last stand with Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad."" (thanks Krim)